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Noun mosquito hawk has 2 senses
- dragonfly, darning needle, devil's darning needle, sewing needle, snake feeder, snake doctor, mosquito hawk, skeeter hawk - slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
--1 is a kind of odonate
- nighthawk, bullbat, mosquito hawk - mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
--2 is a kind of goatsucker, nightjar, caprimulgid
--2 is a member of Chordeiles, genus Chordeiles
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